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Recruit and Organize

Learn about Gatherings, Events, and Assignment Schedules.

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Opportunities Overview

Understanding the Difference Between a Gathering and an Event

Learn when to use a gathering vs an event when scheduling volunteers.

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Understanding the Difference Between Event Roles and Assignments

Learn why there are two types of Roles and how they work with scheduling.

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Setting Activity Privacy and Permissions

How to change who can see and sign up for activities.

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Duplicating Events and Gatherings, Extending Assignment Schedules

Learn how to create ongoing schedules and duplicate events to save time when adding new schedules.

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Publishing a Schedule with Repeating Shifts

How to create shifts that repeat every day, week or set a custom repeating pattern for event and assignment schedules.

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Gatherings

Managing signups for gatherings

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Events

Creating an Event Application

Learn how to design an event application.

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Creating an Event Schedule

Learn how to build an event schedule with shifts, roles, and locations.

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Managing an Event

Learn how to review incoming applications and shift requests.

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Inviting People to an Event

How to share your event and invite volunteers to signup.

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Scheduling an Event Without Publishing a Signup Page

Learn how to keep an event private and assign volunteers to shifts.

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Publishing and Changing the Status of an Event

Learn how to publish, cancel, or delete an event.

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Assignments

Introduction to Assignments

Learn how to create and design an assignment application.

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Opening and Closing Assignment Applications

Learn how to open assignment applications so they are available for signups.

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Qualifying People for Assignments

Learn about managing the assignment pipeline to qualify and unqualify volunteers.

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Schedules for Assignments

Creating an Assignment Schedule

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Managing an Assignment Schedule

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Scheduling 101

Understanding the Schedule Views and Filtering

How to filter the schedule by role, status, location and switch calendar views.

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Schedule FAQs

Frequently asked questions when scheduling.

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Optional Reference

How and when to use the Optional Reference field when creating a new shift.

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Set a Cutoff Time for Volunteers to Cancel

Customize Your Cancellation Limits.

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How to Limit the Number of Volunteers

Learn how to set a minimum and maximum for shifts and events.

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Editing Shift Details

Learn how to edit and change a shift within the schedule.

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Cancelling Shifts

Learn how to cancel or remove a shift from a schedule.

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Waitlisting Shifts

Learn about setting waitlist preferences in a shift and how to add or remove a volunteer from the waitlist.

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Deleting Shifts, Roles, and Locations

How to delete shifts, roles, and locations within a schedule.

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